diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b47b8bc75..8af2facca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,24 @@
-# API changes
+# Changelog 
+
+## 1.0.0-beta2
+
+- https://c.delta.chat docs are now regenerated again through our CI 
+
+- several rPGP cleanups, security fixes and better multi-platform support 
+
+- reconnect on io errors and broken pipes (imap)
+
+- probe SMTP with real connection not just setup
+
+- various imap/smtp related fixes
+
+- use to_string_lossy in most places instead of relying on valid utf-8
+  encodings
+ 
+- rework, rustify and test autoconfig-reading and parsing 
+
+- some rustifications/boolifications of c-ints 
+
 
 ## 1.0.0-beta1 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b73839910..a0b8e2063 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.1"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.2"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace 0.3.40 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "base64 0.10.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -549,9 +549,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.1"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.2"
 dependencies = [
- "deltachat 1.0.0-beta.1",
+ "deltachat 1.0.0-beta.2",
  "deltachat-provider-database 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "human-panic 1.0.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "libc 0.2.65 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b2e9d40b3..72503bdc8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.1"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.2"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "MPL"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index d615ec2e0..f1d557306 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.1"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.2"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"